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Prisons Becoming Warehouses for the Old

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons Becoming Warehouses for the Old By James Ridgeway July 25, 2009 Prisons Becoming Warehouses for the Old July 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment AGING BEHIND BARS SERIES I have written hefore about the aging population in American prisons and jails, due in large part to the draconian sentencing policies of the courts, federal, state, and local. As a result these places seem destined to become nursing homes surrounded by razor wire. Angola prison in Louisiana, for instance, boasts that some 90 percent of its population will die there. The prison has managed to equip itself with a hospice, and trained inmates to attend to a convict?s last days. Burl Cain, the warden, is backed up by a phalanx of Christian fundamentalist preachers who freely roam the 18,000 acre former slave plantation recruiting inmates to be preachers...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).